[OpenSTA-devel] Compiling without STLport and increasing char variable limits

[Daniel S. <da...@Op...>]

It's been a while but I've at last found some time to get some things
commited into the CVS HEAD today:

- Some simple changes that allow building the code cleanly without
  any version of the STLport installed - using M$'s included STL.
  Experience has taught me that although this builds without errors
  there are still fixes required as test execution stability is not
  as good as with the recommended STLport.

- Changes that were originally provided by Thierry to make the SCL
  compiler accept larger character arrays.  I made extra changes here
  so that only one line needs to be updated in scl_limits.h and the
  other related buffers, etc. increase in size proportionally.
  Testing has shown this works well and requires no changes to the
  runtime (only to the compiler) a number of people are running 256K
  variables with no downsides - except for more memory usage, duh!

I've been encouraged to get some of this stuff out there by Bernie of
Perfomax who's been providing invaluable testing, feedback, and not
forgetting funding, to find and fix some long standing bugs in the
area of Cookie recording.  Huge thanks to him.  I'll be getting these
commited, after some more testing, in the next week or so.

Cheers
/dan
-- 
Daniel Sutcliffe <Da...@Op...>
  OpenSTA part-time caretaker - http://OpenSTA.org/